Belt-loop and button for trousers.



R. J. EWIG.

BELT LOOP AND BUTTON FOR TROUSERS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26. 1911.

1 ,274;,253, Patented July 30, 1918.

WITNESSES 11v VEN mg STATES UNITE PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT J". EWIG, OF BROOKLYN, YORK.

BELT-LOOP AND BUTTON FOR TROUSERS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT J. Ewie, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, eounty ofKings, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Belt-Loop and Button for Trousers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to trousers attachments and has particular reference to the construction of belt loops and buttons for the support of trousers.

More definitely stated the invention has for its primary object the provision of a combined rigid belt loop and button structure which serves at least three immediate purposes as follows: first, a stiffener for the waist portion of the trousers preventing eol lapsing, buckling or wrinkling of such portion which is ordinarily incident to trousers as ordinarily made; secondly, the provision of a belt loop or guide means for the belt, and, thirdly, the provision of a button or means to secure the button to the upper portion of the trousers in an expeditious and reliable manner.

WVith the foregoing and other objects .in view the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and. while the invention is not restricted to the exact details of construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose of illustrating a pract-ical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a fragment of the waist portion of a pair of trousers indicating the outside and the inside views of my improvement applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the blank from which the main portion of my improvement is made by bending around the dotted line portions.

Fig. 8 is an outside elevation.

Fig. 4 is an edge elevation; and

Fig. 5 is an inside elevation of my improvement.

Referring now more partieuhirly to the drawings I show the belt or waist portion 10, of a pair of trousers 11 to the upper or free edge of which any suitable number of my improvements may be applied.

My improvement comprises a frame por- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 30,191 8.

tion 12 and a button 13. The frame is preferably formed from a single piece of sheet material such as metal, orv its equivalent, of sullicient rigidity to maintain its intended shape and possess the requisite strength for the various purposes set forth herein. This frame is preferably stamped in the form indicated in Fig. 2 and comprises a head portion 14, a shank l5 and a base 16. The main portion of the head is preferably rectangular and the shank 15 extends from the central portion of one end thereof, while at the other end oro )posite the shank is formed a lug extension 17. From a comparison now of Figs. 2 and t it will be understood that from the form shown in the blank in Fig. 2 the frame member is bent into the finished form of Fig. 4;, the bending being around bending lines 18, 19, 20, 21. and 22. The bending around the line 18 forms the head into a. U-shaped structure adapted to embrace the upper edge of the trousers. The bending at the lines 19 to forms the shank into a loop which stands oil in a plane parallel to the outer surface of the band or belt portion of the trousers providing a space 23 through which the belt is adapted to be slipped in the well known manner. The short portion of the shank between the bending lines 21 and 22 may be of the same length as that between the bending lines 19 and 20 if the base 16 is to lie in the same plane as the outer portion of the head for attachment to the outside of the trousers, but if the base is to be secured on the inside of the trousers it may be preferred to make the short portion between the lines 21 and 22 a little longer where it extends through the trousers. The base may be provided with one or more holes 16' for attachment purposes, such as a rivet 2 L or stitching. Likewise the head is preferably provided with pairs of registering holes 25 through which rivets 26, or their equivalent, may pass serv ing to secure this head portion to the trousers, the rivets passing through the fabric as well as the head. The button 13 is secured by means of a rivet 27, or the like, in a hole 17 formed in the lug 17, the button lying as indicated on the inside of the trousers but obviously the special location of the button is of secondary importance inasmuch as it may be held by the frame 12 at any one of several places.

A device made in accordance with this invention may be manufactured very cheaply of any suitable sheet material and may be nickel plated, enameled or otherwise finished in any desired color or manner, possessing in addition to the advantages above indicated features of ornamentation as Well as utility.

I claim":

1. In a device of the character set forth,

a blank for the frame of flat material and comprising a rectangular head having pairs of holes therethrough, a base remote from the head and having a hole therethrough, a shank extending between the base and the center of one end of the head, and a button Copies of this patent may be obtained for lu'g having a hole therethrough extending from the center of the end of the head opposite the shank.

2. In a device of the character set forth, a frame having a head of U-shape and having tWo pairs of registering holes therethrough for securing the same upon opposite sides of the-fabric, a shank extending laterally from the head and thence parallel thereto, and a base secured to the other end of the shank and parallel to'the head and having a hole therethrough for fastening means.

ROBERT J. EWIG.

Washington, D: G." 

